ASUS Prepares to NUC the Steam Machine with a Mini PC Featuring a Panther Lake Processor and an Arc B390 GPU

Meanwhile Valve really needs to be paying attention to these mini monsters. While they do cost a lot more it won't matter if the steam machine is stupidly priced. They keep it in the 600-800 range they should do well, but price it at $1K and to me these look a lot more attractive even if it means dropping another $500 or so.
 
If previous high end chips are any indication, this won't be a very high volume part. I think only Acer may have something below $1500 with this SoC.
 
Bit of blur since having skimmed what feels like ~100 posts from CES now, but I think there's been around a half dozen products with this CPU announced already, and Intel pitching it as a gaming handheld option as well. The other real trick is if they can get enough of them produced for OEMs and whatnot.
 
All the big news I've been seeing so far... and admittedly I have not been watching very closely


...is all the previous generation OLED monitors going on fire sale.

That, and AI seems to no longer the big buzzword, just another marketing bullet point that everyone is assumed to have.
 
A lot of robot stuff, I've been checking the live feed on Engadget and they've covered some more unique items which are not PC related. I saw some pretty cool things to help those with physical disabilities as well.

Otherwise, yep a pretty "meh" event in regards to PC. There's a couple of other noteworthy items like the new VESA HDR Trueblack 1000 standard, which one of the LG laptops I posted about a few days ago is supposed to support, WiFi 7 and 8, a couple of other things I can't remember right now, but otherwise not much that's truly a new or step forward PCs. Those ASUS AR glasses are kind of neat.

I'll probably end up doing two more CES posts before the week is over, one on what wasn't shown, and then maybe a roundup of things worth knowing about.
 
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